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heblaj01 · 02-06-2007, 10:18 AM

Karina,
Being much less knowledgeable than you think (no background in life sciences) I have to rely on what experts are saying & on common sense deductions from the evidence.
The main arguments against IPT from the standpoint of a layman are:
1. it has been around for a long time &
2. there is still no verifiable response data
3. there has been no research papers in PubMed
4. there has been no clinical trial

If the treatment was very effective at least one of the above negative points should have been answered positively.
Now, for a more scientific discussion of IPT here is the viewpoint of conventional medicine:
http://www.quackwatch.org/01Quackery...ancer/ipt.html
Why You Should Stay Away from Insulin Potentiation Therapy (IPT)
Robert Baratz, M.D., D.D.S., Ph.D.

P.S.
A quick search of PubMed gave me only one answer which seems to remotely relate to IPT:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...=pubmed_docsum
RNAi-mediated silencing of insulin receptor substrate 1 (IRS-1) enhances tamoxifen-induced cell death in MCF-7 breast cancer cells.
I don't fully understand this abstract, but if I read it correctly it, would seem to be somewhat the opposite of IPT.

02-06-2007, 10:18 AM	#12
heblaj01 Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 543	Karina, Being much less knowledgeable than you think (no background in life sciences) I have to rely on what experts are saying & on common sense deductions from the evidence. The main arguments against IPT from the standpoint of a layman are: 1. it has been around for a long time & 2. there is still no verifiable response data 3. there has been no research papers in PubMed 4. there has been no clinical trial If the treatment was very effective at least one of the above negative points should have been answered positively. Now, for a more scientific discussion of IPT here is the viewpoint of conventional medicine: http://www.quackwatch.org/01Quackery...ancer/ipt.html Why You Should Stay Away from Insulin Potentiation Therapy (IPT) Robert Baratz, M.D., D.D.S., Ph.D. P.S. A quick search of PubMed gave me only one answer which seems to remotely relate to IPT: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...=pubmed_docsum RNAi-mediated silencing of insulin receptor substrate 1 (IRS-1) enhances tamoxifen-induced cell death in MCF-7 breast cancer cells. I don't fully understand this abstract, but if I read it correctly it, would seem to be somewhat the opposite of IPT.